Monday, June 21, 2004

Plug pulled on Weblogs.com

Dave Winer, back when he created Userland, also created a free hosting site for blogs on his own servers. He called the free hosting site Weblogs.com which hosted about 3,000 blogs.

Yesterday, Dave pulled the plug on Weblogs.com citing the amount of work he was expected to do for free and health problems. Still, users were very upset to find their blogs gone with no prior warning.

...bloggers who relied on Weblogs.com were furious, saying they should have been warned about the cutoff. Their anger spread to other bloggers, too, including Elisabeth Riba of Melrose, Mass., who called Winer "an egomaniacal blowhard with his head in the clouds. So much for his vision of blogtopia."